- [Instructor] Premiere Elements is not one workspace,but actually several, and in this session we're going to takea look at some of the various workspaces, what they do,and then how to customize them for your specific needs.When you first launch the program, you get tothe Welcome screen, and the Welcome screen givesyou access to the video editor, that is Premiere Elements,where you can select either a new project,open project, or your most recent projects.From this screen you can also launch the Organizer,which is a program for managing the media fileson your computer, we'll take a look at ita little later in this course,and if you have Photoshop Elements installed,you can also launch Photoshop Elements from this screen.

Let's launch Premiere Elements.The Premiere Elements editor has bothan Expert workspace, and a Quick workspace.Now the Quick workspace, which we'll look ata little more in-depth a little later in this course,is a simple workspace for assembling your movie.Here you can do some basic editing,you can assemble your clips, you can trimyour clips, but you notice you onlyhave one track of video running through it.You have a track that you can lay titles over the video,you have a track where you can record narration,you have a track where you can lay in music,but it's a fairly simply editing workspace.

Now the Expert view is much morelike a professional video editor.In other words, it has a timeline in whichyou can stack many, many tracks of video and audio.By the way, if you hover on any ofthe seams between two panels, you can dragand make one panel smaller and other larger.I'm doing that here just to show you that youcan add up to 99 tracks of video, and 99 tracks of audio.By the way, you notice that by default,some tracks are open, in other words Video 1 and Audio 1as you can see, you can see the waveform for the audio,and you can see the picture on the video,some are collapsed, you can open them up like this,just by clicking on the little toggle,and you'll be able to see the tracks completely,but sometimes to save vertical space,you keep them collapsed.

Widen that back out again.So you can do things.Many more things, many more professional things,if you layer audio and video tracks on top of each other.We're going to spend most of our time here in the programin the Expert workspace, because it'sthe more powerful of the two.Most of the tools for the program, mostof the tools we'll be using, are accessible viathe toolbar on the right-hand side of the program,running along the side.And let me just select a clip on the timeline,because otherwise you won't be able to see someof these tools, but if we click on some of the tools,you'll see we have the option tomake adjustments to our video and our audio.

We have a number of tools here, both video and audio tools.We'll explore these in-depth throughout this course.We have a list of many, many, many video and audio effects.We have an Applied Effects panel,where we can make adjustments to those effects,and create keyframed animations.We have many, many, many transitions.Title templates.

Custom music tracks.And even hundreds of pieces of clip art wecan use in our movies.The program even includes tools herefor creating movie menus for your DVDs.Now if you have a dual monitor, that's two monitorson your computer system, you can goover here to Window and select Dual Monitor Workspace.That breaks the timeline off into a separate panel.It doesn't break any of the other pieces off,so you can't separate it into a number of floating windows,however it separates the timeline so you can widenthe timeline on one monitor, and you can have allof the other tools on your second monitor.

To restore to the single-piece workspace,you simply go up to the Window menu,and select Restore Workspace,and it becomes one panel again.So as you can see, the Premiere Elements interfaceis designed to be clean and uncluttered.Whether you're working on a big production,or a quick movie for YouTube, whetheryou're assembling your video, designing a title sequence,or creating a DVD menu structure,there's a custom workspace for doingthat job built right into the program.And the tools that you need areusually only a click or two away.

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10/4/2017

Premiere Elements is an affordable and full-featured video-editing program. It's a complete moviemaker's toolkit—easy to use but powerful enough for professionals. Get up and running with the latest version, Premiere Elements 2018, in this course with Steve Grisetti. Learn everything you need to know to turn raw video clips into professional movies, complete with color correction, effects, pitch-perfect audio, titles, and animation. Discover how to choose the right tools for the job, work in Quick view and Expert view, record voiceover, build motion paths, and add transitions between clips. Steve also shows you how to use the Instant Movie and Video Story tools for quick, easy moviemaking, as well as the Video Collage tool for one-click split-screen effects. Last but not least, dive into the Export & Share workspace for authoring DVDs and exporting video to share on your TV, smartphone, or online channels such Facebook and YouTube.